Seoul Tower

On Sunday my buddy, James, and I took the subway into Seoul to go on a little adventure to Seoul Tower which is the tallest building in Seoul. To get up there you can hike up the mountain (no thank you) or take a cable car, which we did. It was his first time in anything like that so that was cool. As I'm afraid of heights, I was a bit nervous. It didn't help that some people on board kept screaming with ever little jolt the cable car made. When they would scream I would say: I don't like this! Meanwhile he just kept saying: I feel normal. I feel fine.

Out-take

When you get up to the tower there's lots to take in. They have one of those places for you and your lover to put a lock on to show your undying love for each other.

There's lots of restaurants and things to see. I guess we should have thought it through more, but being up there was quite windy! I wish I had brought a toque - he wished he had brought mittens. Together we had one well dressed person. My face is red in most pictures because I got wind burn!

There's an arcade, a teddy bear museum, and some 3-D shows to take in. But really, the best part is the view of Seoul. Its' a huge city full of buildings. But, I kept reminding myself that pretty much everyone lives in an apartment, so it looks like it has way more business towers than it does.

Watching the 3D experience!

It probably looks nicer in spring or fall when everything isn't dead.

Koreans love cartoonish things. There's little cartoon animals wherever you go. Seoul tower is no exception.

We came back to Uijeongbu craving pizza. We hit up pizza hut where you can order pizza but also has a little salad bar, which I was happy about because I find it difficult to eat vegetables here. There's just so much meat all the time! This salad bar was the weirdest mix of things I've seen: Little discs of corn on the cob, lettuce, multiple types of what I assume was potato salad, yogurt, mayonnaise, french fries, and still semi frozen bits of cut up fruit. Either way, I had some lettuce which made me feel good as I wolfed down some pepperoni slices.

I'm really looking forward to this week at school because there are some positive changes happening in my classroom. (I say this tentatively because I don't know if I trust that they will happen yet.) I'm about to head into work now.

Lots of Love,

Alli